Although the total number of votes cast for each major party is consistently close to even in this battleground state, the political party that drew the maps won 75 percent of the seats (12 of 16) even though it only got roughly 50-60 percent of the votes.

Ohio’s congressional districts are so “safe” that the congressional map perfectly predicts which political party will win each district. The party that is more dominant in each of the congressional districts won 100 percent of the time in 2012 and 2014, and that trend is expected to continue.

Computers are a good tool for mapmaking, but they are just a tool and not the solution to ending gerrymandering. A simple formula does not account for the requirements of the Voting Rights Act.

Last year more than 71 percent of voters supported Issue 1, which established a prohibition on gerrymandering state legislative lines and created mapmaking rules focused on keeping communities/political subdivisions together.

Now is the time to establish similar rules to create fair districts for Congress.